GOOD THINGS by L. C. Tolhurst

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 3, 1867

GOOD THINGS.

By L. C. Tolhurst

In Deut. vi, Moses exhorts Israel to hear God and keep his commandments; and if they obeyed these, the promise was that “when he brought them into the land which he sware unto their fathers, their houses should be filled with good things.” Again in Jos. xxiii, as Joshua waxed old, he called for all Israel; and as he exhorted them, he says in verse 14, “And ye know in all your hearts and in all your souls, that not one thing hath failed of all the good things which the Lord your God spoke concerning you.”

David, in Psa. cv, 5, in blessing the Lord, says, “Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things.” In Prov. xxviii, 10, it is said that the upright shall have good things. Christ says in Matt. vii, 11, Our Heavenly Father will give good things to those that ask him. In Rom. x, 15, we are told that the gospel of peace bringeth glad tidings of good things. In Heb. it says that Christ is an high Priest of good things to come. We have good things in this world, and Christ being our high Priest of good things to come, we may still look forward for good things to come.

These thoughts about good things were suggested upon reading Bro. J. E. White’s “Acknowledgment.” Brethren and sisters, these are good things that are taking place through the workings of the Spirit of God upon the hearts of his children. May God bless the young brother, and bring him safe to Mount Zion.

L. C. TOLHURST.

Columbia, Ohio.